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BONN—The Hamburg Senate passed Wednesday a bill to extend the
date of the statute of limitations for prosecution of crimes of murder and
genocide. The draft will be submitted to the Bundesrat, the parliamen-
tary body of the heads of the West German states.
Under the measure, all prosecutions of crimes punishable by a maxi-
mum sentence of life imprisonment would be extended from the present
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U.S. OKs $17 Million in Goods
to Egypt Despite Verbal Attack

$2.25 Million in Israel Bonds
Purchased Here During 1964

A record total of $2.250,000 in cash sales was realized in the 1964
Israel Bond campaign in Detroit. it was announced by Tom Borman,
general chairman.
This figure is a gain of over $500,000 or 30 per cent above last
year's total and over $200,000 more than the previous record year of
1951, when the Israel Bond drive was initiated.
"Even more dramatic," said Borman, "is the achievement of 35 per
cent more Israel Bond purchasers than in 1963. I am very gratified
by the result and wish to thank all our supporters and workers for
this great accomplishment. I especially wish to thank the congregations
for their tremendous efforts which made this year's record possible. I
also want to thank the banks and the unions for showing their faith
in Israel's future."
Borman had set the 1984 Detroit goal at S2,200,000 at the National
Israel Bond Board of Governors Conference in New York at the begin-
ning of 1964.
Banks bought $200,000 in Israel Bonds during 1964. UAW Secretary-
Treasurer Emil Mazey presented a check for $250.000 for the
UAW's purchase of Israel Bonds at the union dinner honoring U.S.
Sen. Phillip A. Hart, last May, when union purchases of Israel Bonds
totaled $375.000.
Congregational and High Holy Day activities resulted in
$1,274,000 in Israel Bond pledges.
This was the second Israel Bond redemption year, and reinvest-
ments were a factor in the success of the 1964 campaign. said Borman.

WASHINGTON (JTA)—The State Department has announced that the United
States would honor all existing aid agreements with Egypt despite President Nasser's
denunciation of the United States.
This was announced simultaneously with the release of $16,994,000 in surplus
commodities to Egypt under the existing agreement.
The administration, however, will temporarily defer Egygit's request f or an addi-
tional $35,000.000 food supplies above the $140,000,000 in surplus commodities in
the current program. -
State Department sources said it was important to "maintain a Christian spirit
toward Egypt" and not pass hasty judgement on the Nasser regime.
Later, President Johnson was urged by a member of the House Agriculture Com-
mittee to sever further food shipments to Egypt.
Rep. Paul Findley, Illinois Republican, said in a letter to the President that "in
view of recent contemptible action and comments by President Nasser, I strongly urge
that you halt further taxpayer-financed hand-outs to the Egyptian government.
"How can we hope to build our prestige and influence abroad if we continue to
heap aid on those who spitefully use us, insult us, and help our enemies?" Rep. Findley
asked. He asserted that "other ambitious governments may conclude that the surest
way to get hand-outs from the U.S. Treasury is to shoot down U.S. planes, arm cannibals
and tell the United States to "go to hell."
Rep. Findley said he was "shocked to learn that the United States Agriculture
Department is going ahead with a wheat shipment worth $16,900,000 to Egypt."
A number of congressmen Monday during the opening of the new congres-

sional session. served notice that they would question the continuation of aid to

Egypt. Both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate as well as the House, voiced

reservations about the State Department position which favors continued support of
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The World Zionist Congress: Its Search
Facing Jewish Problems
for illicality

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

JERUSALEM—Seldom are the world Jewish
communities as closely knit as they are at gather-
ings like the present, assembled at the sessions
of the 26th World Zionist Congress. There are
delegates from more than 30 countries. A delega-
tion of two has even come here to represent the
Zionists of Cuba. Hundreds have come from the
United States whose Zionist parties have received
accreditation for 145 delegates who are accom-
panied by deputy-delegates and by members of
their families.
(Delegates from the Detroit area are: Abra-
ham Berniker, Windsor, Mapam; Mrs. Max Lich-
ter, Hadassah; Philip Slomovitz, Zionist Organiza-
tion of America; Rabbi Isaac Stollman, Mizrachi.
Mrs. Morris Schaver is a deputy-delegate repre-
senting Mapai).
There is one aspect of the Congress that re-
flects the sentiments and the thinking and search-
ing for solutions of Jewish problems by world
Jewry: what's to be done about assimilation? how
are we to draw the youth into our ranks?
Stated in simpler terms, the international
Jewish puzzle is whether Jews can survive in free-
dom, and Dr. Nahum Goldmann, setting the tone
for the Congress, put it in even simpler terms
when he said:

"The decisive test for our ability to survive
is our psychological attitude, our spirit. We have
lived for centuries as a non-conformist people,
as a persecuted minority, have resisted over-
whelmingly powerful majorities, have refused
to give up our concepts and our ideas, and have
maintained our identity against all the normal
rules of historic evolution. It was always hard

and difficult to be a Jew. It was hard and diffi-
cult to be a Zionist: in the great classic period of
the movement we were a minority, fighting
against a majority of Jews who ridiculed us, who
fought us, who either did not take us seriously
or regarded us as dangerous for their corn-
placent well-being. Today we are living in a
state of mind in which we try to make every-
thing easy: easy to be a Jew, easy to be a Zion-
ist, easy to be a citizen of Israel. I wish we could
afford to take the easy way. We may have de-
served it, after centuries of suffering, of trage-
dies. But the time for this has not vet come.
And unless we imbue our people and our move-
ment anew with the classic spirit of non-con-
formism, of courage, of faith, of readiness to
fight, which is the source of Jewish greatness
and the uniqueness of our destiny, our future
is in danger."

Having thus agreed on a common denomina-
tor, recognizing the issues as Jewish leadership
does, the Jewish communities are being put to the
test through the Zionist movement. As the cause
around which Jews everywhere had gathered to
strive for liberation for millions, it now emerges
in a strong appeal to Jews everywhere to mobilize
forces to assure the creation of a knowledgeable
leadership which should be able to train a well
informed force in Jewry understanding the needs
of the people and the aspects that are vital for
Jewish survival.
Since it is survival that is aimed at, Zionist
aspirations. as they are being formulated here
anew embrace youth activities, extended educa-
tional programs for 'young and old, encourage-
ment in the establishment of day schools.

It is the "how" rather than thr "what" and
the "why" that create anxiety and puzzlement.
All who are concerned with the survivalism
know what is at stake and why there must be ex-
tended activities to assure the dignified and cre-
ative existence of Jewry. Few have offered ways
of attracting the youth or of strengthening Jew-
ish ranks. Even the genius of the movement,
Nahum Goldmann, was able brilliantly to evalu-
ate the problem. But he did not offer a solution.

Yet, there is an aspect of encouragement in
the fact that there is a delegation of youths-72
young people having come here as non-voting
representatives of Zionist and general youth or-
ganizations from 18 countries. This is, in itself, a
hopeful sign in an era that often is marked by a
feeling of despair over the failure to enroll young
people in Jewish movements. And it would be
sheer lack of realism to deny that much of the dis-
cussion regarding future actions and the present
status of Jewry is marked by a measure of despair.
The present Congress, like the preceding one
held four years ago, is marked by a noteworthy
change in what may be described as the shtimung,
the atmosphere. and the leadership. It was so
much easier to strive Zionistically when there was
need for statehood: that has been achieved; and
there was greater interest and attraction when
the heads of the movement—not to speak of Herzl,
Nordal, Wolffsohn and Warburg—were Ussishkin,
Lipsky. Szold, Stephen Wise. so many others.

Even Ben-Gurion is missing! At a dinner of
the World Union of General Zionists, B-G seemed
to take delight in boasting that he was not a

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